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How is this going to be spent?

charles frenzel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:03:09 +0000

A few days ago we decided that we needed to take some action on the new budget.

The government is going to need a lot of help if it is to know how to spend some of the following:

$6 Billion on energy efficiency in public housing.
$5 Billion on weatherization grants to homeowners.
$8 Billion on public transit and ancillary infrastructure.
$40 Billion assisting school districts to modernize.
$2 Billion rehabing foreclosed properties.
$29 Billion for roads and bridges.

Personally, I don’t think we should have very much faith in the decision process. We’ll tend to get storm windows on houses in Lake Charles, La. and screens on houses in Montana. New benches at bus stops will feature eye catching designs and no shelter roofs. Old-but-serviceable will become targets for new-and-novel. The public will get a whole slew of new buzz words and politicians won’t have to get colds kissing babies for a while. Dedicating a few new acres of asphalt is safer than repainting the food bank.

Adhesion

charles frenzel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:24:09 +0000

How well does this paint stick?

Testing Adhesion

Corrosion at Weld

charles frenzel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:08:26 +0000

Corrosion attacts welds.

Corrosion at Weld

Repairs Needed

charles frenzel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:59:32 +0000

Eventually things go wrong and need repair.

Repairs Needed Urgently

Trust

charles frenzel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:28:59 +0000

Corrosion is the hidden enemy. The greatest structure is held up with the smallest rivet or weld. Paint should preserve, not hide.

Lead in Children

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:12:45 +0000

Within these pages you will find much to comfort you and much to worry you. One of the comforts might be part of a paper presented by Mary Jane Brown of the Center for Disease Control in which she reports that the statistics for the population of children with hightened lead levels has move from 9% elevated in 1988 to 1.4% in 2004.

Have we cleaned up the environment, or removed children from playgrounds contaminated with lead from years of lead in fuel?